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modern science shall be practically recognized and applied, 

 that there is no waste in the physical universe, nothing 

 in excess, nothing useless, from the bone which the dog 

 growls over at our door, to the dung of the sea-fowl, for 

 which the nations of the earth are contending, on the most 

 distant and desolate island, but that 



" Nature never lends 

 The smallest scruple of her excellence, 

 But, like a thrifty goddess, she determines 

 Herself the glory of a creditor, 

 Both thanks and use ;" — 



still, still, the great want of American agriculture will re- 

 main, — that want which I have alluded to, in the opening 

 of this address, and to which I recur once more, for a 

 few moments, in its conclusion, — the want of adequate 

 markets for the sale of its produce. Nay, the want will 

 only have been increased and aggravated by the greater 

 fertility of our fields, and the greater abundance of our 

 harvests. 



Now, it is obvious, that these markets are either to be 

 supplied at home or abroad. 



And I am not one of those, if any there be, who are 

 disposed to disparage the value of a foreign market for 

 any thing for which we can find one. It is clearly the duty 

 of our Government to make arrangements in every way in 

 its power by wise negotiations and just systems of reci- 

 procity, for the introduction into foreign countries of the 

 largest possible amount of our surplus provisions and 

 breadstuff's. Such arrangements, however, are clearly com- 

 mercial arrangements; and I refer to them merely as an 

 illustration, that what may seem to be done by our legis- 

 lators only for the benefit of commerce, may really result in 

 the most important aid and advantage to agriculture. 



I cannot pass from this topic, however, without the ex- 

 pression of an opinion, that the idea of an adequate foreign 



